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A last-minute tea party primary challenge to Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas not only sent political shockwaves through the Lone Star State but signaled that the ongoing divide in the Republican Party would continue.
Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, is aligned with the party's hard-right faction, and his 2014 election challenge automatically puts pressure on Cornyn, who has tacked rightward for the last year since tea party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, won in 2012 as a political novice.
At the same time, another Senate Republican leader up for re-election, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, is also facing a tea party opponent, putting the Senate's top GOP leaders in the position of dealing with intra-party challenges next year as they guide the caucus.
In last year's elections, many analysts and mainstream Republicans blamed the tea party candidates for costing the party control of the Senate, losing seats the GOP was expected to win.
Cornyn was the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee last year and elected to stay out of divisive primaries. But Tuesday, the committee wasted no time in announcing support for the incumbent Texas senator.
"John Cornyn is one of the most conservative members in the Senate and a strong leader for the state of Texas," an NRSC statement said. "We are proud to support Sen. Cornyn, and while this primary challenge is quite the head-scratcher, it will be defeated."
One group pushing for activist candidates, the conservative Club for Growth, is apparently heeding the critics, at least in the Cornyn race, announcing Tuesday that its political action committee would not choose sides in the Texas Senate primary.
"While Congressman Stockman has a pro-economic growth record, so does Sen. Cornyn, as witnessed by his 87 percent lifetime Club for Growth score," Chris Chocola, the Club for Growth's president, said in a statement.
The GOP also wants to ensure that it secures the most electable candidates for open Senate seats in Georgia and Iowa. The party now holds 45 seats – six short of a simple majority and control of the chamber.
However, there is still significant opposition to just sticking to the mainstream candidates.
"We haven't decided whether we will endorse anyone in this race, but we're going to watch it closely," said Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund, which has been supportive of tea party candidates.
"Texas deserves two conservative fighters in the Senate, not just one," said Hoskins via email. "John Cornyn has voted to increase the debt, raise taxes, bail out Wall Street banks, and fund Obamacare. He's become part of the problem in Washington and Texas Republicans deserve better."
Cruz himself has refused to endorse Cornyn, generally a slam dunk among in-state colleagues of the same party, and he has said he will not take sides in primaries.
"The GOP is faction-ridden," said University of Virginia political expert Larry Sabato. "That's obvious. You have seven incumbents being opposed in party primaries by tea party candidates. But I'll bet they all win, or at most, there is one upset."
Sabato said Cornyn was "in very good shape, at least at the starting gate."
With the Club for Growth on the sidelines, "I don't see how Stockman can come close to matching Cornyn's war chest," Sabato said.
Cornyn has $7 million in his political fund and Stockman has about $32,000.
Bill Miller, an Austin, Texas, political consultant with clients in both parties, dismissed Stockman's chances.
"He's an irritant," Miller said. "He's a burr under the saddle. He got into it because he's going to talk about what he wants to talk about. Stockman's going to have all the tea party issues. He's going to be their amplifier."
The primary is March 4, and there are six GOP opponents to Cornyn.
Mark McKinnon, a top Austin-based political adviser to former President George W. Bush, said that if Bevo, the Texas Longhorn that serves as the University of Texas mascot, "could get on the ballot, it would represent more of a threat to John Cornyn than Steve Stockman. And Bevo would raise more money."
Meanwhile, in Mississippi, where six-term Republican Sen. Thad Cochran also faces a tea party challenge next year, GOP strategist Henry Barbour said competitive primaries were healthy, but he was supporting the incumbent Cochran.
"We want to affect public policy and you can do it a lot better by being in the majority," said Barbour, nephew of the former governor and former Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour. "Any incumbent is vulnerable in this environment, but Thad Cochran has done an incredible job for Mississippi, especially after Katrina."


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Sometimes you may need to correct power factor (PF) at a single motor. This means sizing PF capacitors for that motor. The good news: If you size these capacitors correctly, you'll lower your electrical energy usage costs. The bad news: If you size them too small, you may not accomplish much. The worst news: If you size the capacitors too large, the PF vector swings way past perpendicular, leaving you in a very unfavorable situation. But don't worry, calculations to get the proper kVAR value and correct PF capacitor size are straightforward.
Sizing the capacitor
First, you need to collect the full-load PF and efficiency information on the motor in question. You can often get this directly from your motor supplier in the form of product data sheets, CD-ROMS, or right off its Web site. It wouldn't hurt to check the motor manufacturer's Web site either.
Second, you need your motor's input rating in kW. To get that, you'll probably need to do some simple conversions, which start with very simple calculations as shown in Equations to Know. Basically, you'll need to determine the input kW, as shown in Equation 2.
Now that you have this number, you can refer to a PF correction table (Table 1). Looking at the Table, go in from the left with the existing PF, and then come down from the top with the desired PF. Where the two lines intersect, you'll find the multiplier you need. Take that multiplier and multiply the motor's input kW by it. This will give you the required kVAR of correction.
Finally, using the data in Table 2, select a capacitor, rounding down to the next lower value. You now have the correct size capacitor for your PF correction plan. For a typical installation, see Calculation Procedure Example.
A typical way of installing a capacitor in this type of application is to connect it between the starter and the single motor. This connection reduces the current flowing through the starter and overload relay.
Resizing the overload heaters
Now let's think about the overload heaters. You've installed them in the starter, right? And you sized them according to the current the starter will see, based on the motor load. If you reduce the amount of current through the starter, the existing heaters won't be able to protect the motor. So, you have to reduce the heater size to accommodate the reduced current through the starter, or you'll be running an under-protected motor.
The motor itself will draw the same magnitude of current at full load as it would without PF correction. However, the PF capacitor will supply a portion of the current to the motor. Only the balance will come through the starter from the power line. You can determine the new value of current passing through the overloads by using Equation 3.
If you were going to do this for the motor in our previous example, the math would look like that shown in Heater Current Calculation Example.
Rules of caution
When correcting PF at a single motor, follow these guidelines:
Rule 1: Don't get overly corrective with your PF correction. You should target the PF correction for the motor's running current, not its starting or full load current. In other words, always under correct; the cost is a slight loss of PF. If you over correct, the costs pile up because of high transient torques, overvoltages, and other problems you need to avoid. You should consider 95% correction as the upper limit, with 90% being the optimum target.
Rule 2: Never use this type of PF correction with a motor that's controlled with a solid-state device, such as a soft-start or variable-frequency drive. If you do have a PF problem and are using such a device, you should contact the device manufacturer for a solution. The manufacturer's expertise and exposure to thousands of users can save you time, money, and downtime. The manufacturer will be more than happy to help you.
Sidebar: Equations to Know
Equation 1: Converting motor horsepower to kW of motor output
kWMOTOR OUTPUT = hp × 0.746
Equation 2: Converting output kW to input kW
kWMOTOR INPUT = kWMOTOR OUTPUT ÷ (% Efficiency ÷ 100)
Equation 3: Converting uncorrected current to corrected current
Sidebar: Calculation Procedure Example
What is the kVAR of a PF correction capacitor needed to improve the PF of a 100-hp motor to 95% at full load?
Step 1: Look up the existing PF and efficiency
In our case, the existing PF is 85%, and the motor is 94.7% efficient.
Step 2: Convert the hp to kWOUTPUT
Using Equation 1, we get:
kWMOTOR OUTPUT = hp × 0.746 = 100 × 0.746 = 74.6kW
Step 3: Convert output kW to input kW
Using Equation 2, we get:
kWMOTOR INPUT = kWMOTOR OUTPUT ÷ (% Efficiency ÷ 100) = 74.6kW ÷ 0.947 = 78.8kW
Step 4: Find multiplier to get desired PF correction
In our case, we want to correct the PF from 85% to 95%. Looking at Table 1 and going down the 95% column and across the 85% column, we see that the intersection is at 0.291, which is the multiplier we need.
Step 5: Multiply input kW by multiplier
The calculation is 78.8 × 0.291 = 22.9 kVAR.
Step 6: Select closest kVAR value
Using Table 2, we see that closest value rounded down is 22.5 kVAR.
Sidebar: Heater Current Calculation Example
Using the same 100-hp motor as in the Calculation Procedure Example, you would normally select a heater size based on a current of 118A. However, when you use Equation 3 to correct for PF, you have to select a heater size based on a new number.
Here's how you arrive at that number:

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Attach a 3/4″ x 2-1/2″ x 28″ board to your miter gauge (not an original idea), then put a piece of masking tape on the table saw in front of the blade insert. Then cut partway into a board using the miter hold down. Shut the saw off and slowly pull the board back until the board is half covering the tape. Mark a thin line on the tape to indicate both sides of the kerf. Now when you want to make an accurate cut, line up the mark on the workpiece with the mark on the tape. Change the tape that's stuck to the table when you change the blades.
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The situation where no rating would be received is when playing against an Online AI opponent. So I'd suggest the game was against the AI.
It is possible to disable the Online AI if you wish to only play against other Cabals players. Go to options and untick "Online Match AI Opponent"
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I agree with like 99% of this statement but I'll ask a question:Potatoe1 wrote: Fight your own battles and don't be a fucking pussie.
The over coddled kids who don't learn that lesson will get ripped apart in the real world when their parents aren't their to to save them from the "adult" bullies who push them around in very different ways.
Is it possible to 'fight your own battles' without having to resort to a fist fight?
The reason why I pose this question is because I almost lost my tennis scholarship as a result of multiple fight in my senior year of highschool.
I definitely agree that over coddled kids could have a difficult time with the real world, but if someone is leaning towards the other extreme and is constantly getting into trouble and developing a bad reputation (i.e. me), then that can have negative consequences as well.
I think it's an interesting thought. I also love the idea of standing up for oneself, and honestly would rather gets AIDS than backdown from anyone............but I also can't help but wonder if my reputation (both online and offline) would have been a bit better had I just taken the higher road more times than not (even if it resulted in me possibly having less respect for myself?)
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WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, the lead Democratic sponsor of the Late-Term Abortion Restriction Act, released the following statement today following a ruling by a U.S. District Court that the recently enacted "partial-birth" abortion ban was unconstitutional:
"Today's ruling is as appropriate as it was expected. The ban that was struck down today was clearly unconstitutional and the bill's proponents knew that but insisted on passing an ideological bill to score political points. The ban was unconstitutional under the Supreme Court's rulings in both Roe v. Wade and Stenberg v. Carhart, which struck down a similar Nebraska law proscribing partial-birth abortions.
"The authors of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act recognized the constitutional infirmity of their bill, and thus sought to alter the facts upon which Stenberg was decided. Specifically, they rejected the Court's findings that partial-birth abortion may, in some circumstances, be the safest abortion procedure for some women. And they tried to 'deem' partial-birth abortion never necessary to preserve the health of the woman – an assertion widely disputed by medical professionals.
"The proponents' effort to 'deem' this procedure as unnecessary in all cases was an unprecedented and dangerous foray by Congress into the field of medicine and the doctor-patient relationship.
"I have tried to find common ground on this issue for several years by sponsoring the Hoyer-Greenwood Late Term Abortion Restriction Act, which would ban abortions in the late stages of pregnancy with exceptions for the life and the health of the mother. Hoyer-Greenwood is both constitutional and a common-ground approach.
"Unlike the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, Hoyer-Greenwood focuses on when abortions are performed rather than how they are performed. It would ban all late-term abortions, regardless of the medical procedure used, so long as there are exceptions for the life and the health of the mother. Thus, it comports with the Constitutional requirements articulated in Stenberg v. Carhart.
"I am hopeful that we might still seize the common-ground in this emotional and important debate by addressing when and not how abortions are performed, while preserving a woman's right to choose as defined by Roe v. Wade and Stenberg v. Carhart."


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Military Records Burnt in Fire? Try Morning Reports
We all know that between 16-18 million Military Personal Files were destroyed in the fire of 1973 at the St. Louis National Personnel Records Center. This fire destroyed about 80% of Army records from Nov. 1 1912 to Jan. 1 1960; and 75% of all Air Force records from Sep. 25. 1947 to Jan 1. 1964. So how can you get military information on your ancestor?
NARA National Personnel Records Center has always had access to Morning Reports to recreate records lost in the fire. These Morning Reports for the Army and Air Corps units are for 1940-forward. Although reports are not based on an individual, they do give a daily account of the unit. Individuals are listed in the case of promotion or demotion, being killed, wounded or missing in action, or going to a hospital for treatment. Monthly, quarterly, and semi-annually Unit Rosters are also included.
In order to access the correct Morning Report, the veteran's exact unit of assignment must be known. Morning Reports and Unit Rosters are available on microfilm and not indexed by individuals. These reports, now available to researchers, gives additional ways to recreate your ancestor's service. But prior to reviewing the Morning Report for details of that incident, the exact unit will be needed. One customer was looking for a veteran who was wounded while "taking a farm house" in Holland during the "Battle of the Bulge. The approximate date given was Oct 15, 1942, but the exact unit was not known. It is possible, however, that his discharge date and the battalion listed on his payroll will provide us with the first Morning Report to research. Additional reports may need to be researched to pinpoint the exact incident.
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Author Notes: I wanted mint as a vegetable rather than as a spice in a COOL muffin. And summer means blueberries, so I added a whole cup of mint for a clean summery taste to my healthy oat blueberry muffins. The mint in this muffin pairs well with the smoked salmon and cream cheese. If you like a smooth-textured muffin, try my Red, White, & Blue-berry MINT Muffins. —BoulderGalinTokyo
Makes: 12
oil spray
cup oats (I used Quaker quick oats but old-fashioned will work too)
1 1/2
cups organic whole wheat pastry flour
tablespoon baking powder
teaspoon salt
cup brown sugar, packed
cup milk (I use low fat)
cup butter, melted
teaspoons vanilla essence, (If you want to mess with half a vanilla bean, be my guest)
1 1/2
cups fresh blueberries, washed, picked over, and drained well
cup fresh mint leaves, lightly packed, see Mint Notes (mine is spearmint)
paper cup liners
cream cheese
smoked salmon
- Paper cup liners are recommended for this muffin. Spray inside liners with oil spray. Heat oven to 425°F. (210ºC)
- Combine oatmeal, w.w. flour, baking powder, salt, and brown sugar, mix well.
- In another bowl beat egg with a whisk, then add melted butter, milk and vanilla. Mix well.
- Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir just until all is moistened.
- Mix blueberries and mint. Add both to the batter and stir in gently. Mint should not be clumped together.
- Spoon into full-size muffin pan. (Each muffin was about 85% full) Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. (my gas convection oven took 15 minutes, hard to check with a toothpick because so many blueberries)
- Serve warm or at room temperature with cream cheese (and jelly for those who want a sweeter muffin). OR cool the muffins, and serve with cream cheese and a small piece of smoked salmon tucked inside.
- MINT NOTES: Pick mint before the flower buds begin to form. Throw away any leaves with blemishes. Mint will quickly develop blemishes from hitting, cutting, bruising in exactly the same way that basil or shiso leaves will, so prepare a bowl of cold water. Begin pulling mint leaves off, the little one go directly into the water. The medium sized leaves are ripped in half, and the largest leaves just rip into thirds. Quickly put into the cold water. Don't use any stems. (You can cut with a knife but it seemed to take more time, switching from pulling to cutting. Use a stainless steel or ceramic knife) Put mint in measuring cup, and if its not enough, return prepared mint to the cold water bowl, then continue ripping more mint. Drain right before mixing into the batter (Salad spinner works great).
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Note: This post is an excerpt from an essay published in New Directions: A Journal of Scholarship, Creativity and Leadership in Music Education. The entire essay can be read here.
Maybe it started when I was teaching middle school. I had my persona of "Mr. Woody, Music Teacher" for students weekdays 9:00am to 3:30pm. But I considered myself just regular Bob evenings and weekends. During the week, my mind raced with concerns of curriculum and classroom management. As all teachers know, those thoughts could easily spill into my time away from school. I made a point to separate my work life from my personal life. I strived to "leave my briefcase at the door" literally and figuratively.
That's when I remember first trying to compartmentalize my life, but in all likelihood, the practice began years before I was a working professional. Like everyone else, I grew up filling different roles with the different social groups I was a part of. As a teenager, I wasn't exactly the same person around my parents and teachers as I was with my friends! Perhaps it's because students tend to associate school with rules, I developed much different expectations for myself when in school versus when out of it. This included how I oriented to music as a teen. While at school, I did…well, "school music." Primarily an instrumentalist, I played trumpet in the high school marching band, concert band, and jazz band. But outside of school, I listened to pop music, and lots of it.
Perhaps I'm dramatizing things a bit much here. I don't presume that leading a musical double life is the kind of "breaking bad" that merits a television series. In fact, the "school music versus popular music" divide is pretty common among students and teachers alike. And there are other areas of life where we need to play multiple roles, some of which are difficult to juggle. Working mothers and fathers know this all too well. Now as a parent, I must admit that I'm not exactly the same person around my students and children as I am with my friends!
While multiple roles are a fact of modern life, I've come to believe that too much compartmentalization can be detrimental, at least for me as a music educator. In addition to doing this with my professional and personal lives, and with my alternate musical worlds, at times in my past I've also considered my role as teacher and researcher as independent responsibilities. In all of these instances, I'm now convinced that too much separation can be harmful to both sides of the divide.
I believe I've benefited over the last few years as I've allowed myself to blend roles and unify my worlds in certain ways. In this paper, I will reflect on how I've come to this realization, and share some of my favorite points in the process. By no means am I suggesting that I've got it all figured out. To be sure, this is just my outlook as I write this today. Not only do I expect it to change, I think I'd be pretty disappointed if it doesn't. I hope, though, that some who read this will relate to what I share, and it will contribute to their own process.
Questioning the Value of Role Separation
The need to separate one's personal life from their work life is well accepted these days. Can you imagine a media advice-giver like Dr. Oz saying we'd be happier and healthier if we just brought more of our work home with us? Not likely. The underlying assumption is that work means pressure, stress, and worry. Bring that home and it'll strain marriages and relationships with one's children. If you can't unwind, relax and get a good night's sleep, then your physical and mental health suffers and you can't find fulfillment in your personal life. I'm literally feeling tension in my body just writing about it here.
As much as I joke with my friends about having a "cushy college professor job," I would not say that my work life in music education has ever come easy to me. Many times over the years, I've scrambled to meet deadlines (missed a few, too) and had to deal with some difficult people along the way. I'm no stranger to stress from the job. Clearly there is nothing to be gained by bringing that home with me. But what if I didn't characterize my job by its stressful times? I've wondered, is it possible to see my job differently? To not lose sight of the big picture? In my position, my primary task—that big picture—is to share music in ways that enrich the lives of others. I consider myself very fortunate in this way. Especially when I look for them, it's not uncommon to experience moments of reward and joy in my job. Certainly it'd be alright to bring some of that home with me. Maybe I don't need as much professional-personal separation as other people do. I am a music educator, after all, not a crime scene investigator.
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Copyright 2014 Robert H. Woody


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Nature Walks
Evening Bat Walk in Central Park
July 12, 2013
At dusk, bats leave their homes in warm spaces under city roofs to feed on flying insects. Join Brad Klein, Danielle Gustafson, and other members of the New York City Bat Group for a walk through Central Park. Aided by a detector that amplifies the bats' otherwise inaudible high-frequency chirps, bat watchers can monitor and catalogue the species that call the city home.
Meet at the Museum entrance on 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.


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I've never been too big on lucky pennies or a rabbit's foot, a special cap or shirt, something like naming your shotgun or rifle to give it a little flair.
Superstitions don't settle well with me. Never have had any talismans to take on a hunt or anything like that. I don't worry about bananas in the boat, either, when I'm fishing. I know some guys freak out a little when someone has them on board, usually a bass tournament angler or saltwater captain. I've seen both throw bananas overboard and then blame them for whatever bad thing happens during the day.
By Alan Clemons, Managing Editor
So when I was pumping gas at the station in Protection, Kan., before my hunt last week at Tall Tine Outfitters, the penny on the ground by the pump didn't mean much. Just a penny, discolored with age, lying in the grit. Still, I had to pick it up. After all, if nothing else, a penny is one more smidge of money I didn't have.
Head up, though, I noticed. Pennies lying head up are supposedly good luck. Tail up and you might as well leave it in the dirt. I guess maybe that's like walking under a ladder or something. But, whatever. It's a penny.
I picked it up and finished pumping gas, then drove the remaining six or so miles through town to Tall Tine. Ted Jaycox founded it 13 years ago in this small town of about 500, just 18 miles north of the Oklahoma border, and manages his 18,000 acres for big bucks. Bowhunters and gun hunters arrive from all over the country each year for great hunting opportunities. Many of them see more bucks than they've ever seen before and kill the biggest of their lives.
Being Prepared for Hunting
Three of our crew of four got into camp late after cross-country travel and delays, so we opted to sleep late the first morning of our five-day hunt. That gave us time to prep our gear and sight in our rifles.
For this hunt we were using the Mossberg MVP Patrol and versatile MVP FLEX rifles, both in .308, topped with Swarovski Z3 series scopes. Anytime you're traveling by air with scoped firearms it's imperative to check them not only for your peace of mind but also for the ethical aspect of doing everything possible to make a clean, effective shot.
I love the FLEX format because of the interchangeable stock and grip options. I outfitted my bolt-action MVP, which had an 18.5-inch bull barrel, with the pistol grip and adjustable stock. With heavy clothing such as parkas or for shooters with a shorter length of pull, the adjustable stock is quite nice. It's great for maneuvering in ground blinds. It also is available in a 20-inch barrel, and either easily breaks down into a quite unassuming package that can be stowed in a vehicle for travel.
The MVP Patrol has a 16.25-inch barrel threaded for a muzzle break (which is standard) or suppressor. It's also great for blinds or tight quarters while delivering lethal performance for North American big game.
"You hear some say that short-barrel guns can't reach out, but we took these two MVPs (used in Kansas) to Wyoming for prairie dogs and were shooting them at a measured 425 yards," said Linda Powell of Mossberg. "You may lose some velocity but the tradeoff is accuracy. They're great for the variety of hunting options, from big game to predators, and with all the options of the FLEX you can set up a rifle with a standard stock, adjustable, pistol grip or have the different accessories for other members of your family."
Despite the biting wind gusts signaling the arrival of the cold front roaring in, bringing snow that night while we slept, we got the scopes zeroed at 100 yards. I daresay if the weather had been a bit more favorable we might have burned through some more of the ammo. But once we got dialed in, it didn't take any arm-twisting to get back in the house.
Ample Opportunities, Careful Thinking
Jaycox has numerous stands on his property, each set up for wind and the best locations at creek or woods crossings, fields and for gun or bow. Kansas allows feeders so he also has them on many stands, within bow range for archers and about 100 yards or so from gun stands. Thousands of game camera images help him keep up with bucks, measure rack sizes and see what's going on.
Jaycox does some serious deliberation about where to place hunters. Because he knows better than anyone what deer are found in the different areas, he's keen on hunting the same stand frequently. If he's seen a couple of big bucks then — if the wind's right — he's not going to put a guy in a stand one day and bounce him around every day thereafter.
"I know some guys get tired of seeing the same thing or going to the same stand," he said. "But If I'm pretty sure one's in there then we'll hunt that stand. But only if the wind doesn't change or get wrong. If that happens then I'll be thinking about other areas. There's no point hunting a spot with a bad wind if there are better opportunities."
The double-seat ladder stand I was in the first afternoon overlooked several hundred acres of sandy scrub dotted with plum bushes that provide cover for deer. Cottonwoods, elms and cedars offer wind breaks, too, for deer and hunters. Falling temps and wind out of the west-northwest, but changing daily, didn't bother me due to the protection from a nice stand of trees.
Probably a dozen does and a couple of small bucks came to the feeder I was watching. A really nice, tall 8-point popped out following a couple of does. They ignored him, and he gave up on them, before he began lip-curling and checking the does near the feeder. He stuck around for a while, walked about 10 yards from my stand and then into the woods behind me. That was darn cool.
The buck stuck around in the area overnight with the does, showing up the next day but only briefly. A secondary rut was going on, Jaycox surmised. I wasn't the only one to see bucks hounding does. Aaron Carter with the NRA's American Rifleman magazine saw a head-turner on a flat-out run with a doe ahead of it. Powell and Dean Capuano with Swarovski also saw bucks chasing.
As usual, it was fun to witness and see the activity, especially with snow greeting us the second morning. The arctic blast out of the Rockies missed us with ice, but we did get snow. That was pretty cool.
Capuano killed a wide 10-point that morning with a Mossberg 4×4 in 7mm Rem Mag and topped with the Swarovski Z6i series scope. That was a great way to crack the ice for us. Having seen deer, and with the weather changing almost daily to single-digit temps and changing wind, we all were ready for something positive to happen.
That afternoon, the solid 8-point I'd seen the day before was nowhere to be seen. Likely sticking close to his does, the only action was a trio of does that blitzed the feeder and popped out. One ran in on a rope, ate for maybe two minutes and then ran off with her tail up like something was amiss. Perhaps the coyote that sauntered through the day before was lurking somewhere.
About 3:15 p.m. a buck appeared more than 400 yards away seemingly from nowhere. I guess he'd been bedded down and until he turned his head to show the sticker tine, I thought it was the same one from the day before. As he came closer I got a better look at him through my binoculars and saw a forked brow. Then, some funky trash in front of the brow tines. Unique character in the rack, age, and an attitude like he was The Man helped convince me.
The MVP FLEX sent the 165-grain Federal "Deer Thug" Power-Shok bullet through the tip of the knuckle of the front right leg and then into the chest. The bottom of the chest exploded as the bullet expanded, resulting in devastating impact to the heart. The trashy 11-point buck staggered about 40 yards and fell within sight.
The next afternoon, Powell and Carter connected on their bucks. Powell was shooting the Mossberg FLEX while Carter had the MVP Patrol and a special hand-load ammo he'd whipped up. Her buck fell within 50 yards; Carter's was toppled by his shot that entered the front shoulder and exited the rear, virtually destroying everything inside.
Saturday morning while Carter and Powell were hunting, I slept in and did a little laundry. Part of the spoils of tagging out early. I heard a little "tink" and looked on the floor, spying my new lucky penny that had fallen from a pants pocket.
I don't believe in such stuff. But I'm keeping the penny.


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Getting Nearer and Nearer
From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage
When Billie Holiday promised, "the difficult I'll do right now, the impossible will take a little while," she admitted that she was "crazy in love." But that lyric might well serve as the anthem of the gay rights movement, which has achieved, more swiftly than any other individual rights movement in history, not merely the impossible, but the unthinkable. Those who have fought for what might be called the privileges of gay romance—the rights to marry and to have intimate sexual relations with the partner of one's choosing, regardless of gender—were called crazy, and worse, by many. But with respect to both sodomy and marriage laws, they have proven not foolish romantics, but visionaries.
When Ninia Baehr and Genora Dancel sued the state of Hawaii for the right to marry in 1991, no state, indeed no country, recognized the right of same-sex couples to marry. Gay rights groups at the time opposed the filing, worried that it would create bad law and/or spark anti-gay resentment. Most of the American public, it is safe to say, had hardly considered the issue, precisely because it was unthinkable. At the time, 75 percent of Americans thought gay sexual relations were morally wrong, and only 29 percent thought gays and lesbians should be permitted to adopt children. When, in the early 1980s, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors became the first city council in the country to recognize domestic partnerships, Mayor Dianne Feinstein vetoed the ordinance.
Today, two thirds of Americans, including Rush Limbaugh, support civil unions for same-sex couples; nine states and the District of Columbia have recognized gay marriage; and nine more have recognized same-sex civil unions or domestic partnerships with all or most of the benefits associated with marriage. In the 2012 election, after an unbroken string of losses on popular referenda, gay marriage proponents prevailed on all four state ballot initiatives addressing the issue. Voters in Maryland, Maine, and Washington approved referenda expressly authorizing the recognition of gay marriage, and Minnesota voters rejected an amendment banning gay marriage.
Polls suggest that this progress will continue. A nationwide poll this year by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 62 percent of people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine favor gay marriage, while only 31 percent of those sixty-five and over do so. Nate Silver, the statistician best known for his FiveThirtyEight blog, who accurately predicted Obama's victories in both 2008 and 2012, has analyzed demographic data state by state and projected that no later than next year a majority of people in a majority of the states will support gay marriage. By 2016, Silver says, the only states that will still have a majority opposing it will be in the Deep South;…
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Apply to the MiT Program
Find out what you need to prepare to enter the Master in Teaching program, and how your application and materials are evaluated.
The MiT program is no longer accepting applications for fall 2018.
Read and review the entire MiT catalog (PDF) before you apply. There are many important details not included in this website.
All application materials must be received for your application to be considered.
How Your Materials Are Evaluated
We seek to prepare the finest teachers to support the development of all children.
Accepted candidates demonstrate academic excellence and the potential to succeed in a broad range of classroom settings. The admissions committee considers both qualitative and quantitative written evidence when they evaluate your application.
Qualities of a top applicant
- Graduate-level academic proficiency in general and endorsement coursework
- Interest in the intellectual and social development of young people
- Commitment to a teaching career in a K–12 setting
- Interpersonal communication skills and professionalism in public settings
- Experience with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds
- Completeness and care in preparation of application materials
Admission Requirements
Becoming an MiT candidate requires foresight and preparation. We recommend beginning your preparations as early as two years in advance.
You must have:
A bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education. You may be admitted provisionally pending completion.
A minimum GPA of 3.0 on 4.0 scale for last 90 quarter hours or 60 semester hours. Evergreen grads: this requirement doesn't apply to you. Instead, we read through your evaluations to determine whether you're ready for graduate-level study.
Completed the following general prerequisites with a 2.0 GPA or satisfactory narrative evaluation. Required for all applicants by program start, but preferred by application date.
- 4 quarter credits in college level math
- 8 quarter credits in social sciences such as psychology, history, etc.
- 10 credits of academic writing to include a course in expository or research writing. Writing intensive classes besides creative writing may be considered with appropriate documentation.
Completed required coursework specific to your endorsement with a 2.0 GPA or satisfactory narrative evaluation. Every endorsement has different endorsement requirements. Be sure you understand what is required for your endorsement. Indicate work planned or in progress if not done by application date.
Volunteered or worked in a classroom in a U.S. public school at least 40 hours within the last two years. Your experience should include observing or working with diverse students at the grade level you want to teach.
Document your experience on a Recent School Experience Hours Log Sheet.
Passing scores on state-required tests (WEST-B and WEST-E).
The ability to pass a Washington State Patrol and FBI background check: Admitted candidates must be fingerprinted and complete a character and fitness check form for clearance before the start of the program.
Evidence of a commitment to teaching, interpersonal communication skills, and professionalism: The admissions committee considers all of your application materials to look for evidence of these skills. Your resume should provide specific details about all of your experiences working with young people, especially those from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. Your letters of recommendation should speak to your interpersonal skills, and critical thinking and writing abilities.
Before You Apply
Determine your endorsements and complete worksheets
In order to teach a specific subject, you must demonstrate coursework in that area. You will complete a worksheet for each endorsement area to upload with your application. See your endorsement options and requirements.
Take required tests
Washington State requires that all teachers pass tests demonstrating their competency in basic skills and in their endorsed subjects. Find out what tests are required.
Select and contact your three references
You will provide email addresses of three professional people willing to provide letters of recommendation. They will be contacted by the application processing company to submit a letter addressing one or more of the following: your work with children, academic work, writing ability, interpersonal skills, and job-related experiences.
You are expected to include a letter from a teacher or other educator who is aware of your interaction with youth. Ideally, we would receive a letter from the teacher who hosted your work or observation in a public school setting.
Also provide a letter from a college professor if you've attended class within the last three years.
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Include all key employment, volunteer, and educational experiences relevant to your future success as a teacher, listing experiences with youth first.
You will need to demonstrate 40 or more hours of experience within the last two years in a public school classroom(s) at grade levels you wish to teach. This can include observing, volunteering, or work experience.
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Critically analyze the statement above. Draft a thesis in reaction to it, and explain how your background and behaviors have prepared you to work with the issues and/or goals you identified in your thesis (typed, two-three double-spaced pages). Review the definition of a thesis-based, expository essay at Owl–Purdue Online Writing Lab.
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07 Jan, 2012
Day 4 – I'm Slowly Getting The Hang of this Blog
Posted by: RolyPolyPrincess In: Weight Loss
So I haven't been able to dedicate as much time to learning my way around this blog as I normally would when I start something. But I'm slowly figuring it out, I think. Today was good and bad at the same time. If my new "Food Logs" page worked the way I expected it to, […]
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CASC women shock No. 19 Redlands, while Vikings lose at home to Cougars
Behind Ericka Edwards' 19 second-half points, the Carl Albert State College Lady Vikings shocked the 19th-ranked Redlands Community College Lady Cougars 69-62 Thursday night at Mick Thompson Fieldhouse.The 17-point outings by Redlands players Jared Griffin and Quienton Paras proved to be the difference for the Cougars in their 73-64 win over the Vikings.The CASC teams will return to action Monday night with road games against Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in Miami. The women's game will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the men's contest at 8 p.m.


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Area of Composite Shapes
Lesson 4 of 19
Objective: SWBAT: • Find the area of a parallelogram by using the formula. • Find the area of a trapezoid and composite shapes by decomposing them into triangles, rectangles, squares, and/or parallelograms.
Big Idea: How can you find the area of this shape? Students apply their knowledge of area to find the area of composite shapes.
Do Now
See my Do Now in my Strategy folder that explains my beginning of class routines.
Often, I create do nows that have problems that connect to the task that students will be working on that day. Today I want students to solve problems where they have to determine when to calculate perimeter and when to calculate area. When finding perimeter, a common mistake is that students include the height inside the triangle so that they add four measurements together. For the area, a common mistake is for students to just multiply the base times the height. Other students may struggle to identify the base and the height. I look for these mistakes and may present one as my answer if I see multiple students making one of these mistakes while I circulate during the do now.
I call on a student to share one idea. That student then calls on the next student to share his/her idea. I encourage students to build on what their classmates have said by using sentence starters like, "I agree/disagree with __________ because…" and "My idea connects with ____________'s idea…" Students are engaging in MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
More Quadrilaterals
- Before this lesson make copies of the parallelograms and trapezoids.
- I give each student a copy of these shapes and a pair of scissors.
- I remove the words in italics on students' notes before I print them.
I want students to take time to figure out a strategy to find the area of the parallelograms and trapezoids. Some students will split a parallelogram into two triangles and a rectangle to find the area. Other students may count the whole squares and ½ squares. Other students may recognize they can move one of the triangles to the other side of the shape to create a rectangle to find the area. Students are engaging in MP8: Look for and make sense of repeated reasoning.
For the trapezoids some students may create two triangles and a rectangle. Some struggling students may try to estimate the area by counting whole squares and partial squares. Other students may recognize that with trapezoid III they can move a triangle to create a rectangle, although this strategy does not work with the other trapezoids.
I choose students to share their strategies under the document camera. I look for a student who created rectangles and triangles. I also look for a student who moved a triangle to create a rectangle. If no one uses this strategy I cut out the parallelogram and show them.
When I define parallelogram I also introduce the formula for area of base times height. When I introduce the trapezoid I do not introduce a formula. I find that many students get confused with this formula. Instead, I encourage students to break trapezoids up into triangles and a rectangle/square.
Students work on breaking the composite shapes into shapes they can use to find area. Most students will break this shape into 2 right triangles and a rectangle. Some students may create triangles that are not right triangles and a rectangle. They will struggle to calculate the area because the grid will not allow them to accurately calculate the area.
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Area of Composite Shapes
We quickly review the strategy of breaking composite shapes that we know. There is more than one way to do this with many composite shapes. I emphasize to students that they need to find a way that is efficient and works with the measurements that are given. Sometimes they will have to do detective work to figure out missing measurements.
Some students look at the composite shape and immediately say, "I don't know how to find the area of that kind of shape." I have two students come and show their different strategies for breaking up the shape from the previous section.
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- Before this lesson I Post A Key.
I have a student read over the directions. I review expectations and students start working independently. Students are engaging in MP6: Attend to precision and MP7: Look for and make use of structure.
As students work I walk around to monitor student progress and behavior. If students are struggling, I may ask them one or more of the following questions:
- How can you break this shape up into shapes you know how to deal with?
- What are the base and height of the triangle? How do you know?
- How can you find the area of this shape? Why does that work?
When students complete their work, they raise their hands. I quickly scan their work. If they are on track, I send them to check with the key. If there are problems, I tell students what they need to revise. If students successfully complete the chart they can work on the challenge questions.
Resources (2)
Closure and Ticket to Go
I ask students to turn to problem 7. I ask students to share their thinking about finding the area of this shape. Students participate in a Think Pair Share. I want students to recognize that they can break this shape into a parallelogram, a rectangle, and a triangle. Some students may struggle to identify the base of the triangle. By comparing the two parallel lines, we can see that the base of the triangle is 7 yards. Students are engaging in MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others and MP7: Look for and make use of structure.
I pass out the Ticket to Go and the Homework.


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A guide to coping with the pressures of student life, such as exams, money worries and being away from home.
Starting university can be a stressful experience. How you cope with the stress is the key to whether or not it develops into a health problem.
Stress is a natural feeling, designed to help you cope in challenging situations. In small amounts it's good, because it pushes you to work hard and do your best, including in exams.
Leaving home to start your studies can involve some stressful changes. These might include moving to a new area, meeting new people and managing on a tight budget.
The first signs of stress are:
Too much stress can lead to physical and psychological problems, such as:
Short periods of stress are normal, and can often be resolved by something as simple as completing a task – which cuts down your workload – or by talking to others and taking time to relax.
Some of these suggestions might help:
For more tips on beating stress, check out these 10 stress busters.
The NHS Choices Moodzone has eight free mental wellbeing podcasts or audio guides that may help you when your mood is low or you're facing an anxious time in your life.
This anxiety podcast tackles stress that arises around revision time and exams.
Long-term stress and anxiety is difficult to resolve by yourself, and it's often best for you to seek help.
Don't struggle alone. Anxiety can seriously affect your academic performance, and that's not only distressing for you, but means a lot of wasted effort.
Find out more about tackling student mental health issues.


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Kimberly-Clark Initiative Wins 2014 Catalyst Award
Jan 29, 2014, 12:05 EST
DALLAS, Jan. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimberly-Clark Corporation is one of two companies that will receive the prestigious 2014 Catalyst Award, which annually honors innovative initiatives that expand leadership and opportunities for women and business, Catalyst announced today. Kimberly-Clark shares this year's Catalyst Award with Lockheed Martin, the security and aerospace firm.
Since 1987, the Catalyst Award has recognized 82 initiatives at 76 organizations worldwide, focusing on the recruitment, development and advancement of women in workplaces. Kimberly-Clark participated in a rigorous, year-long application and review process that included extensive interviews with dozens of Kimberly-Clark employees and leaders against criteria including business rationale, senior leadership support, accountability, communication, employee engagement, innovation and measurable results.
"Women are directly responsible for about 80 percent of purchases across our business. We must cultivate a diversity of perspectives to drive innovation and business results," said Thomas J. Falk, chairman and chief executive officer for Kimberly-Clark Corp. "Our Kimberly-Clark team is honored to receive this recognition from Catalyst. The award represents an important milestone in our journey to make Kimberly-Clark the very best place for talented women and men to grow and build their careers."
Kimberly-Clark's winning initiative, "Unleash Your Power: Strengthening the Business With Women Leaders," is driven by the Company's strategy for building a diverse and inclusive organization that looks, thinks and behaves like the consumers who use and purchase Kimberly-Clark's essential products in their daily lives. Unleash Your Power includes other key elements as well: fostering global networking forums and mentoring relationships for women; promoting specific policies that enable work-life flexibility to attract and retain women in leadership roles; defining specific business and action plans for recruiting, developing and retaining talented women across the enterprise; and many others.
Unleash Your Power has delivered significant results in the last four years:
- 71 percent increase in the number of women who hold director-level or higher leadership positions globally.
- Doubled the number of women in the U.S. with racially or ethnically diverse backgrounds in "director-plus" roles since 2009.
- Internal promotions of women to "director-plus" jobs have increased significantly, from 19 percent to 44 percent.
"With Unleash Your Power, we collected lots of data about our performance and used those findings to hold a mirror against our organization, to dispel conventional wisdom about our practices and build a fact-based case for action," said Sue Dodsworth, chief diversity officer for Kimberly-Clark Corp. "We're still making progress, but today we have a better understanding of our current state, how people move through our organization, where the issues are and how change can occur."
"This year we celebrate two unique initiatives in two very different industries," said Deborah Gillis, President and CEO, Catalyst. "What they have in common is a commitment to making the advancement of women part of company culture, be it in engineering or consumer products. With a strong focus on strengthening pipelines of talented women, these Award-winning initiatives prove that having a diverse workforce benefits all and has a transformational impact on business, communities, and lives."
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Founded in 1962, Catalyst is the leading nonprofit organization expanding opportunities for women and business. With offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, India and Australia, and more than 700 members, Catalyst is the trusted resource for research, information and advice about women at work. Catalyst annually honors exemplary organizational initiatives that promote women's advancement with the Catalyst Award.
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The Catalyst Award annually honors innovative organizational approaches with proven, measurable results that address the recruitment, development, and advancement of all women, including diverse women. Since 1987, Catalyst has recognized 82 initiatives at 76 organizations from around the world whose groundbreaking diversity and inclusion initiatives have changed workplaces, communities, and lives.
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Fairfield to play Connecticut 6 nightcap against Central
The Fairfield men's basketball team's contest against Central Connecticut State will be the nightcap of the Connecticut 6 on Nov. 10 at the Chase Arena on the campus of the University of Hartford.
For the first time in the four-year history of the event, the games will be played at an on-campus site. Host Hartford will play Quinnipiac at 3 p.m. and Sacred Heart will play Yale at 5:30.
Ticket information for the three games is expected to be released in the next few weeks.
The event began in Bridgeport at the now Webster Bank Arena back in 2009 and was held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville the past two years. Next year, the games will be back at WBA before going to Quinnipiac's Hamden campus in 2014.
In related Stags' scheduling, the team will play its first MAAC game on Dec. 7 against Canisius at the WBA and then will travel to Rider on Dec. 9. The rest of the league schedule, which will resume in January after the two games in December, has yet to be released.
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Early-onset group B streptococcus (GBS) infection is rare and affects about 1 in 2,000 babies born in the UK and Ireland each year. Find out if your baby is at risk.
Early-onset group B streptococcus (GBS) infection is rare. One in every 2,000 newborn babies in the UK and Ireland is diagnosed with a GBS infection.
Early-onset GBS in babies is a GBS infection that begins in the first week after birth.
GBS stands for group B streptococcus, a common bacterium found in the bowel and vagina of about 20% of women in the UK. It usually causes no harm.
Many babies come into contact with the GBS during labour or birth. This causes no problems for the vast majority, but a small number of babies may become seriously ill if they are infected.
Although the infection can make a baby very unwell, most babies make a full recovery with prompt treatment.
Infection is more likely if:
To reduce the risk of infection, mothers of high-risk babies are offered antibiotics during labour.
Pregnant women are not routinely screened for GBS in the UK, but it is sometimes detected when tests for other infections are carried out.
This leaflet from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists tells you more about GBS infection in newborn babies (PDF, 141kb).


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Junior year is the most important year of high school in the college admissions process. While admissions committees will consider every year of high school, including senior year, junior year is the one they will generally scrutinize the most.
That means you'll need to work particularly hard and take plenty of high-level classes that complement your interests this year. You'll likely face new challenges and experience, so it's important to prepare yourself and ensure you can handle everything on your plate.
Be strategic in choosing classes for this year. Since this is such an important year for your transcript and college admissions, you want to prove that you're able to handle a demanding curriculum. Read on for our advice on how to achieve a balanced but still challenging curriculum.
Because this year is so important, you'll want to include Advanced Placement classes to demonstrate that you're up to meeting the demands of a college-level curriculum. You may have taken AP classes or exams in the past, but you'll probably take a good handful this year. Briefly, APs are year-long advanced courses that are intended to match a one-semester, usually introductory college course. After taking or self-studying the course, you'll take the corresponding exam and receive a numerical score from 1-5, five being the highest. If you score well, you may be able to receive college credit, depending on your college's policy. For an overview of AP courses, read What Is an Advanced Placement (AP) Class? .
Many colleges accept credit for some AP classes but not others. Still, if a certain class on your list doesn't grant credit for, say, AP U.S. History, it's still a good idea to take that course and exam if history is a strong subject for you, because it shows that you are willing to challenge yourself.
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We moved to this farm two years ago with the intention of becoming as self-sufficient as possible. To us, the most obvious place to start was with food. We've been building our gardens year by year and preserving food as the gardens produce it, but it became apparent pretty quickly that we could never produce enough for our family with plants alone. It also became apparent that for our farm to be sustainable, animals would need to be eliminated from time to time or we'd be overrun.
Our decades of vegetarianism came to an end when we began processing our chickens (which you can read about here and here), and now with another farm season stretching out ahead of us, we are looking for more ways to produce our own food. We'd like to sustain ourselves through the winter with as much farm food as possible.
Our front yard is covered in lush, green grass that is not really used for much at the moment. When I started thinking about how to turn that space into food, rabbits came to mind. The children had pet rabbits in the past, but I never felt very good about keeping them in a hutch with wire beneath their feet. I want my animals to live as naturally and comfortably and happily as possible, as close to what Nature intended as I can provide. It occurred to me that something similar to our chicken tractors might work well for rabbits – a rabbit tractor!
There were a few things that had to be addressed: could I bring myself to eat a rabbit, and is it possible to kill a rabbit without any undue stress or trauma to the animal? As it turns out, harvesting a rabbit is remarkably quick, easy and painless (you can watch the process in this YouTube video if you so desire). And when my father-in-law gave us a rabbit he had in the freezer, I did indeed bring myself to eat it – and I enjoyed it immensely!
I thought I was pretty original with this rabbit tractor idea, but low and behold, one of the farmers who has inspired me greatly raises pastured rabbits in a tractor system. Joel Salatin and his son have been doing it for years (check it out here), and a quick YouTube search revealed that plenty of other people are doing it too! Awesome!
Jae built the rabbit tractor very quickly with wood and chicken wire that we already had around the farm. I looked around for some inexpensive rabbits – which are in abundance, who knew? – and within a day we had ourselves some pastured rabbits.
We bought ten rabbits from two different farms, for a diversity of genes. Nine of them are 8 weeks old, and the tenth is a seasoned mama who we will breed later in the summer.
The tractor is 8'x4′ with an enclosed nesting box on one end to provide shelter from the elements and a snug place to sleep. The entire tractor is bottomless to allow the rabbits access to fresh grass all day. These bunnies aren't hopping around in a small, wire enclosure!
Each morning, I move the tractor to a fresh patch of grass. The rabbits spend their days browsing on the greens growing under them – crab grass, plantain, dandelions, clover and much more – and our lawn is "mowed" in the process (you may recall that we don't mow the grass around here!). By the end of the day, there is a neat rectangle of short lawn and the tractor is ready to be moved on to the next spot.
I love this system because the rabbits are hopping about on soft ground instead of wire, eating plants instead of pellets, and generally acting as rabbits were meant to act. After observing them quietly for several days, I've come to the conclusion that they are pretty darned happy in their tractor. They haven't dug at the edges in attempts to escape, as some folks have suggested they might. The rabbits have shown no signs of stress whatsoever, and I'm pretty pleased with that.
I'm pretty impressed with the even cropping the rabbits give the grass. It's not patchy as I had expected it might be – instead, it looks like a lawn mower went over it.
On the left of the photo above, you can see grass that has not yet had the tractor on it. On the right, grass that had the tractor on it yesterday (yes, there are dirt patches. Those are not from the rabbits, they were there prior to the tractor).
I'm pretty excited about this new venture in food production and sustainability. I can't wait to see how it all pans out. I'm sure we'll revise and tweak our system over the course of the summer as we see what works and what doesn't, but for now everything is looking good!


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BALTIMORE — Maryland education officials say the state's graduation rate was 83.6 percent for the class of 2012, an increase of 1.5 percentage points over two years.
Officials are crediting Maryland's steady funding of education and efforts by local districts to address achievement gaps for the increase.
Maryland is outpacing the national graduation rate. Using 2010 data, the National Center for Education Statistics estimated this year that 78 percent of public school students nationally earned a diploma within four years of starting high school.
Experts consider graduation rates an indicator of how well a school system is performing.
Prince George's County saw a 3.3 percentage-point decrease in its graduation rate between 2010 and 2012. The rate in Prince George's was 72.9 percent, more than 10 points behind the state average.
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For those of you playing the Campaign game using 3.2.x, you may have noticed that it is broken in a variety of places.
Well, we have a few contributors who have took it upon themselves to help convert the Campaign game.
You will find their work in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11872
However, we need lots of testing, to make sure the Campaign is solid, as it was in the past, so, if you have time, then please help us test the Campaign.
Please read this post: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11872&p=135811#p135790
and download the .wz file located there (download/file.php?id=16375), and then use that file as a mod, and start playing Campaign games like you would before.
We need to know:
A) If it is a direct copy of how the Campaign mission is supposed to work as it did in the past.
B) If you run into any bugs.
C) Test saving & loading on missions and away missions to make sure those work as well.
D) Try breaking things.
E) Performance issues.
Once these have been debugged, the plan is to out them into the repo in time for the next release.
Oh, and feel free to report bugs in that thread, or, you may report things in this thread.
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Hunter McBride Hardin, 20, of Searcy passed away Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. He was born Nov. 25, 1992, in Benton, to Joe Kelly and Kim Moore Hardin. Hunter attended Benton High School.
He was preceded in death by his father, Joe Kelly Hardin; and his grandparents, Dewey Hardin, Marcelle Hardin and Jerry L. Moore.
He is survived by his mother, Kim Hardin of Searcy; a sister, Shelby Hardin of Fayetteville; and his grandmother, Joyce Moore of Searcy.
Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at Ashby Funeral Home with Brother David Crouch officiating. Burial will follow at New Rosemont Cemetery.
Hunter was an avid Razorback fan and the family requests that all who attend should feel free to wear their Razorback attire.
Visitation is set from will be 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday before service time.
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Time for your weekly LIVE edition of the Deadspin Funbag. To submit a question to the live Funbag, you gotta post down in the bowels of the discussion section below. As always, we begin with the question of the week.
I think Spud Webb can still dunk. My stupid friend says no way. We figured if anyone can get to the bottom of this, Deadspin can.
Spud Webb is five-foot-seven and, as of July 13, he will be 50 (!!!!) years old. Spud and Jordan, both turning 50 in the same year. There's a YouTube clip of Webb "dunking" at age 47 that's clearly fake, as you can see below...
Webb now works as a player development exec for the Texas Legends, an NBA D-League team. I contacted the team's publicist (yes, they have a publicist!) to see if I could ask Webb personally if he still had his old hops. They have yet to get back to me.
But again, the man is 50 years old now. Even an athlete as remarkable as Spud Webb isn't immune to the ravages of time. If Webb could still dunk, they wouldn't have to make a phony video of him dunking. All he has left now is the memory of who he once was. And now I feel incredibly old and depressed. Here's how buc nasty Webb was back in the day...
Holy shit, that man could jump out of the arena. By the way, Spud has an official Twitter feed (@SpudDunks). He has tweeted exactly zero times.
Okay, let's get into the Funbag below.
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Reading goalkeeper Alex McCarthy is 'over the moon' to receive his first senior England call-up.
The 23-year-old stopper was Roy Hodgson's surprise selection for the upcoming friendlies against the Republic of Ireland and Brazil at Wembley, getting the nod after just 12 games in the Premier League.
And, whilst the season turned out to be a disappointing one for the Royals, McCarthy is delighted that it will end on a personal high.
"I'm absolutely over the moon to get the England call. It's been a disappointing season for Reading with the club being relegated, but obviously there is a high for me personally," he told GiveMeFootball in an exclusive interview at Wentworth.
"It wasn't expected but I'm obviously delighted to be in such a great squad."
McCarthy did admit that his selection was bittersweet, given Reading's demise from the top flight this term.
However, the former Leeds and Ipswich loanee is unsurprisingly looking at the positives, having recovered from shoulder surgery quicker than expected and impressing at the end of the campaign at the Madejski Stadium.
"It's definitely a case of joy mixed with disappointment. Obviously we're disappointed to go down but we'll be looking to come back straight away next season," added McCarthy.
"I've had an operation on my shoulder and didn't expect to be playing anyway, so it's a nice bonus to be back playing now."
The keeper, who was speaking after his round in the pro-am at the BMW-PGA Championship on Wednesday, also spoke highly of his new manager.
Nigel Adkins was drafted in to replace Brian McDermott and couldn't prevent the side from going down to the Championship, but he's instilled a mentality within the players that McCarthy believes will bring them success.
"I think the new manager has settled in really well and all the boys have grown to him really quickly," he concluded.
"Every manager has there own philosophy of how they want to play, and everyone can see he wants us to get the ball down and pass it, and all the lads are enjoying that and I'm sure it will bring us success."
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